Honolulu City Council Policy Resolutions

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02-205, CD1


AMENDING THE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POLICIES OF THE GENERAL PLAN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU.


WHEREAS, the General Plan of the City and County of Honolulu states in Population Objective C that it is a desirable and attainable long-range objective to establish a pattern of population distribution that will allow the people of Oahu to live and work in harmony; and
WHEREAS, Population Objective C sets forth three population policies describing the elements of the City's directed growth policy and a policy describing the desired population share for each development plan area; and
WHEREAS, Oahu's growth since adoption of the General Plan is following a pattern consistent with the City's directed growth policy as described in Population Objective C Policies 1, 2, and 3 with:
a.    The primary urban center moving toward full development;
b.    A secondary urban center emerging at Kapolei with the surrounding Ewa and Central Oahu urban fringe areas providing significant suburban residential housing to meet needs that cannot be readily met in the primary urban center; and
c.    The remaining urban fringe and rural areas being maintained to sustain their low-rise, low-density suburban character, scenic open space, and small-town, country atmosphere;
and
WHEREAS, Policy 4 complements Policies 1, 2, and 3 by indicating what share of Oahu's population each development plan area should have at the planning horizon year if Policies 1, 2, and 3 are successfully implemented; and

WHEREAS, the General Plan calls for a reevaluation of the objectives and policies of the General Plan and an amendment to maintain a planning horizon of approximately 20 years whenever the State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism revises its population projections for Oahu to an extended time horizon; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has issued revised projections to the year 2025 for Oahu as of February 2000; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Planning and Permitting has conducted a review of the General Plan, with special attention to the Population Objective C policies, and found that:
a.    A policy on population distribution identifying a directed growth policy for Oahu is desirable; and
b.    The current General Plan policies are desirable and attainable and should be continued; and
c.    The appropriate use of the Population Objective C policies needs to be clarified to reduce misunderstanding and misinterpretations; and
d.    The General Plan planning horizon needs to be extended to reflect the time horizons being used in current land use and infrastructure planning;
now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that Population Objective C of the General Plan be amended as follows (material to be deleted is bracketed; new material is underscored):
" Objective C
To establish a pattern of population distribution that will allow the people of Oahu to live and work in harmony.

Policy 1
Facilitate the full development of the primary urban center.

Policy 2
Encourage development within the secondary urban center at Kapolei and the Ewa and Central Oahu urban-fringe areas to relieve development pressures in the remaining urban-fringe and rural areas and to meet housing needs not readily provided in the primary urban center.

Policy 3
Manage physical growth and development in the urban-fringe and rural areas so that:

a.    An undesirable spreading of development is prevented; and

b.    Their population densities are consistent with the character of development and environmental qualities desired for such areas.

Policy 4
[Seek a year 2010 distribution of Oahu's residential population which would be in accord with the following table:

Distribution of
Residential Population

     % OF YEAR 2010
     ISLANDWIDE
LOCATION        POPULATION

Primary Urban Center    45.1% - 49.8%
Ewa    12.0% - 13.3%
Central Oahu    14.9% - 16.5%
East Honolulu    5.3% - 5.8%
Koolaupoko    11.0% - 12.2%
Koolauloa    1.3% - 1.4%
North Shore    1.6% - 1.8%
Waianae    3.8% - 4.2%
     95.0% - 105.0%]
Direct growth according to Policies 1, 2, and 3 above by providing land development capacity and needed infrastructure to seek a 2025 distribution of Oahu’s residential population as follows:


Distribution of
Residential Population

     % SHARE OF
     2025 ISLANDWIDE
LOCATION          POPULATION

Primary Urban Center    46.0 %
Ewa    13.0 %
Central Oahu    17.0 %
East Honolulu    5.3 %
Koolaupoko    11.6 %
Koolauloa    1.4 %
North Shore    1.7 %
Waianae    4.0 %
    100.0 %"

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following conceptual map shall be added to Population Objective C to illustrate the pattern of development described in Policies 1, 2, and 3 and that the current informational Appendix shall be deleted in its entirety; and

OLE Object Here

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the appropriate use of Policy 4 is to help evaluate how well the existing and proposed Development Plans and Sustainable Communities Plans are implementing the General Plan directed growth policy expressed in Policies 1, 2, and 3; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall take effect upon its approval pursuant to Section 6-1511 of the Revised Charter; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that the Clerk transmit, and is hereby directed to transmit, a certified copy of this Resolution to the Mayor, the Managing Director, and the Director of Planning and Permitting.
                         INTRODUCED BY:

                         John DeSoto (BR)

                        

                        

                        

                        

                        

                        
DATE OF INTRODUCTION:
                        

June 26, 2002         
Honolulu, Hawaii                    Councilmembers

APPROVED this day of , 2002.


JEREMY HARRIS, Mayor
City and County of Honolulu


(OCS/072302/ct)


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